Target-tailored Forest Damage Inventory

Target-tailored forest damage inventories (TFDI) aiming at providing data for operational decision making at local level and linked to specific damage events, are undertaken by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

An annual monitoring of the most important sources of forest damage is carried out by the Swedish National Forest inventory (NFI). The Swedish NFI contributes data to, for example, the European cooperation programme ICP Forests and to Forest Europe. 

Although the Swedish NFI is an objective and uniform inventory of forest damage in Swedish forests at national and regional scales, less common or less widespread occurrences of forests pests and pathogens are difficult to survey solely through large-scale monitoring programmes. There is a need for complementary tailored inventories to facilitate timely delivery of relevant information. TDFIs are developed to give a rapid response to requested information on specific damage outbreaks. The TDFIs are carried out in limited and concentrated samples, with flexible but robust methods and design.

 

Data from TFDI is made available through the Swedish National Data Service and can be found via the research data portal Researchdata.se. Each individual inventory is a separate dataset.

• Inventory of resin top disease in young pine forests 2007
• Inventory of resin top disease in young pine forests 2012
• Inventory of resin top disease in young pine forests 2008
• Damage by bark beetles on Norway spruce in the county of Västernorrland and eastern Jämtland 2014
• Damage by bark beetles on Norway spruce in the county of Västernorrland and eastern Jämtland 2015
• Damage by bark beetles on Norway spruce in the county of Västernorrland 2012
• Damage by bark beetles on Norway spruce in the county of Västernorrland 2013
• Damage by bark beetle in Västernorrland 2011

All published datasets from TFDI are collected here: Data collection: Target-tailored Forest Damage Inventory (TFDI)

All data from the TFDI has not yet been transferred, but work is underway to publish older data. Information about TFDI and completed inventories is available on the SLU website: Target-tailored forest damage inventories.